Video 01. (Visit to old Newton County Jail in Covington, Georgia)


Monday, June 22, 2009. 11:00 a.m.
With Richard Johnson and Forrest Sawyer

0.00:6:13 Entering the old Newton County Jail.
0:00:28:13 Forrest Sawyer desribes the right side of the station as being the side where the sheriff and his family resides.
0:00:37:14 Entering the Sheriff's office on the left side of the building
0:00:51:19 The historical interns walk to the back of the bottom floor where the jail cells were located.
0:1:01:05 Forrest Sawyer describes how he remembered the cells appeared.
0:01:15:27 Forrest Sawyer describes the cat walk that surrounded the cells, which was the only way that the inmates and officers could get around.
0:01:26:23 Forrest Sawyer explains the hole in the wall of the inmate cells that was recently added when the jail was renovated.
0:02:08:05 Forrest Sawyer talks about what appears to be upstairs......
0:03:32:02 Forrest Sawyer shows the interns the room where the horrific hangings took place and the trap door that was located on the floor.
0:03:54:29 Forrest Sawyer and the interns enters the hole located at the top of this historic station.
0:04:26:09 Forrest Sawyer shows the group the holding cell by a window where he was held and could conversate with his father and others who would be passing by with their words of encouragement.
0:04:26:23 Forrest Sawyer takes the group on a tour inside the jail cells where he describes his memories of the 45 days he spent in the cells with 6 others inmates.
0:5:06:08 F.Sawyer shows the interns the food slot in which the inmates where fed in their holding cells.
0:5:25:13 F.Sawyer finds a 1979 bond of Ruby Saxon and lets Richard Johnson examine it and he reconizes the person that is listed on the paper as a local woman.
0:6:14:18 Forrest Sawyer describes how he remembered his incarceration and that of some of his friends during this particular period.